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Retardation Terms in The One-Gluon Exchange Potential

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

It is pointed out that the retardation terms given in the original Fermi-Breit potential vanish in the center of mass frame. The retarded one-gluon exchange potential is rederived in this paper from the three-dimensional one-gluon exchange kernel which appears in the exact three-dimensional relativistic equation for quark-antiquark bound states. The retardation part of the potential given in the approximation of order p2/m2p^2/m^2 is shown to be different from those derived in the previous literature. This part is off-shell and does no longer vanish in the center of mass frame.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0510370,
  title  = {Retardation Terms in The One-Gluon Exchange Potential},
  author = {Jun-Chen Su and Jian-Xing Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0510370},
  year   = {2009}
}